$6 OLKACE.E. 



or obsolete. Petals 4, slightly cohering in pairs at the 



base, sometimes only 2 oblong or linear, often entirely want- 

 ing in our species. Stamens 2, rarely 3 to 4. Style 

 single; stigma 2-cleft. Fruit a 1 to 2 -celled' samara, 

 flattened, winged at the apex, 1 to 2-soeded. — Trets % with 

 pciioUd unequally pinnate leaves, and small flowers in crowded 

 panicles or racemes from the axih of the former years growth. 



* dig* preterit; cyro'lawmtlnj. 



1. F. Americana, L, White Ash. 



Lnaf-eis 7 to 9. ^talked, oblong-orate, pointed, nearly entire, glaucsou- underneath", 

 at length smooth; samara spatulate-lioear, obtuse, with a long narrowed tas*. 



Rich woods, common. April, May. The white a led by few trees 



In the beauty and reacn'rf.-i.' of'its proportion. The trunk a to •.*># 



height of 40* feet without a branch and then expands into a c ait of 



about the same additional height. Strk of tha trunk gray, furrowed an 1 era 

 tLat of the branehlets greanish-gray, smooth. Leaves 1 foot or nior^ long. I 

 wt in loose panicles. 



2. F. pujBESCBNS, Walt. Red Ash.* 



Leadels 7 to 9. lanceolate or ovaio-lanccolate. pointed, somewhat sarrat 3 , velvdy- 

 downy underneath, as well as the petioles andyoang branehlets ; simara narrow- 

 ly ianceolate-spatulate, obtuse, usually with an obtuse point, tapering at the ba«. 



Woods alon? stream*, very common. May. The red ash resembles the laei 

 er*"«ies. so a- often to be confounded with it. It rises 6'J f et high witb a straight 

 trunk, covered with bark of a deop brown color. Leave* at leugth reddish undijp- 

 n<*ath. The wood is less valuable tikiu that of the white ash. 



3. F. juglandifolia, Lam. Sicamp Ash. 



Branches smooth: leaJUti 7 to 9. ovate. serrate. -smooth, somewhat downy on the 

 veins underneath, stalked; samara wedge-lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely acuminate 

 at the base. 



Wet woods. May. A small tree IS to 25* feet hi :h. with greenish branchlels 

 I*atx$ 10 to 15 inches long, gr en on both side*, witb a glaucous hus uud</rn<*a$a 

 Flows greeniih. Fruit much smaller than in the othor species. 



• '•{Z-Zyz and corolla both wanimff. 



4. F. sambucifolia, Lam. Black Ash. Water Art. 



Leaflets 9 to 11, sessile by an obtuse base, elliptical-lauceolata, pointed, more or 

 te*i hairy en the veins beneath; samara elliptical-oblong, very obtuse at both ends. 



Kivor banks and swn.mos. April. A slender tree dO to 60 feet high, with a votj 

 teu^h wood. Branches ash-color, with dark dots. Leaves 9 to 16 inches in lun^th; 

 waeoth above, and red-downy on the veins beneath. 



DIVISION III. 



APETALOUS EXOGENOUS PLANTS. 



CosoLLA none; the floral envelopes consisting of a single • 

 icriesof organs (calyx) only, or sometimes wholly wanting,. 



